diretto.rescBenjamin Erb & Tobias Schlecht Project Overview

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Team

Benjamin Erb, Tobias SchlechtMedia Informatics studentsUlm University

Mentoring and SupervisionDipl. Inf. Florian Schaub, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael WeberInstitute of Media Informatics, Ulm University

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Project HistoryI diretto

I preceded student projectI concept for a platform for distributed reporting

I diretto.rescI scholarship projectI revised platform with focus on disaster scenariosI complete platform redesign and additional servicesI platform implementationI modular and extensible reporting middleware

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Platform Overview: General Concept

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Platform Overview: Layers

Conception

APIs

Middleware

Applications

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Platform Overview: Layers

Conception

I reporting based on multimedia documentsI collaboration between remote users and users on-siteI documents enrichable through user-generated content

APIs

Middleware

Applications

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Platform Overview: Layers

Conception

APIs

I well-defined, dedicated service interfacesI HTTP-based RESTful APIs

Middleware

Applications

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Platform Overview: Layers

Conception

APIs

Middleware

I client/server implementations of the APIsI scalable backend implementationsI high-level, language-specific client libraries

Applications

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Platform Overview: Layers

Conception

APIs

Middleware

Applications

I dedicated solutions for use casesI based on appropriate services and middlewareI e.g. web applications, mobile clients etc.

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Platform Overview: Architecture

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Storage APICore API Feed APIUsers

Clie

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Rich Web Application

Main Services

Additional Services

Task API Processing API

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Use Cases

Rescue and Relief Missions

Collaborative Event Coverage

Forensic Usage

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Use Cases

Rescue and Relief Missions

I submission of photos, videos etc. in the fieldI collaborative analysis and evaluationI allocation of reporting tasks

Collaborative Event Coverage

Forensic Usage

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Use Cases

Rescue and Relief Missions

Collaborative Event Coverage

I collaborative documentation of public eventsI upload of documents by on-site usersI live feed on the platform

Forensic Usage

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Use Cases

Rescue and Relief Missions

Collaborative Event Coverage

Forensic Usage

I collection of documents in retrospectI reconstruction of events as exact as possible

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Future Work

I additional services and componentsI use case specific applicationsI alternative service implementations

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Dissemination

Publication

I diretto: A Toolkit for Distributed Reporting and Collaboration;Benjamin Erb, Stefan Kaufmann, Tobias Schlecht, FlorianSchaub, Michael Weber (Mensch & Computer 2011,Chemnitz)

Online

I diretto.org: Project website and blogI @diretto_project: Twitter account

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Platform Release as Open Source

API specifications

I https://github.com/diretto/diretto-api-docI Creative Commons license

Service implementations, client libraries

I https://github.com/direttoI MIT license

Example web application

I https://github.com/diretto/RichWebClientI MIT license